Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 Installation Manual

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Chapter 8.53MaintenanceBecause of the RHN Satellite Server's unique closed environment, its users are provided withabilities not available to any other Red Hat Network customers. In addition, the Satellite itself alsorequires maintenance. This chapter discusses the procedures that should be followed to carry outadministrative functions outside of standard use, as well as to apply patches to the RHN SatelliteServer.8.1. Managing the Satellite ServiceSince the RHN Satellite Server consists of a multitude of individual components, Red Hat provides amaster service that allows you to stop, start, or retrieve status information from the various services inthe appropriate order: rhn-satellite. This helper service accepts all of the typical commands:service rhn-satellite startservice rhn-satellite stopservice rhn-satellite restartservice rhn-satellite statusUse the rhn-satellite service to shut down and bring up the entire RHN Satellite Server andretrieve status messages from all of its services at once.8.2. Updating the SatelliteIf any critical updates are made to RHN Satellite Server, they will be released in the form of anErratum for the RHN Satellite Server.For RHN Satellite Server systems that may be connected to the Internet, the best method for applyingthese Errata Updates is using the Red Hat Update Agent via Red Hat Network. Since the RHNSatellite Server is subscribed to Red Hat Network during initial installation, the user should be able torun up2date -u on the RHN Satellite Server or use the website at https://rhn.redhat.com to apply theupdates.ImportantApache RPMs do not restart the httpd service upon installation. Therefore, afterconducting a full update of an RHN Satellite Server (such as with the commandup2date -uf), Apache may fail. To avoid this, make sure you restart the httpd serviceafter upgrading it.For RHN Satellite Server systems that may not be connected to the Internet, the packages themselvesmay be retrieved using a customer account at https://rhn.redhat.com. Then, they can be appliedmanually by the customer according to instructions in the Errata Advisory.WarningIt is very important to read the Errata Advisory before applying any RHN SatelliteServer Errata Updates. Additional configuration steps may be required to apply certainRHN Satellite Server updates, especially if they involve the database. In such cases,